Anonymous ID: edcf4a Jan. 10, 2020, 7:50 p.m. No.7779746   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9935 >>0040 >>0146 >>0153 >>0215

Has Nothing Been Learned Since 2003? Corporate Media Welcome Back Iraq War Hawks To Make Case for Iran

 

"No voices calling for peace. No voices critical of empire. Just establishment media and current and former Pentagon officials who feed off the trillion dollar war machine."

 

As President Donald Trump spent the early days of 2020 instigating and then backing down from a potentially catastrophic confrontation with Iran, corporate media in the U.S. turned to the very same people who promoted the country's worst foreign policy disaster in a generation to advocate for repeating the mistakes of two decades ago.

 

The decision of networks and cable news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to bring on a stream of past advocates for and architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was panned by progressives who watched in horror and frustration as the same arguments were deployed in service of all-out war with Iran.

 

"It's War Inc. all over again," tweeted The Nation's Dave Zirin.

 

Trump's ordered assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani on January 3 proved the catalyst for escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran. It also opened the door for news outlets to welcome back some of the key Bush-era war cheerleaders.

 

"In a sane and just society, the architects of the nearly 17-year-old war in Iraq—which is still ongoing and has left an estimated half-million people dead—would face war crimes charges and those who cheered them on would be thoroughly discredited."

—Jessica Schulberg, HuffPost

 

The more things change, the more they stay the same, wrote Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson.

 

"The Trump administration's sudden, violent confrontation with Iran stands in contrast to the methodical march to war with Iraq under George W. Bush and his neoconservative cabinet in 2003," Dickinson wrote. "But the rhetoric around the two conflicts has been strikingly similar—as has the reliance on 'razor thin' evidence of an imminent threat to establish a cause for war."

 

Soleimani's death by drone strike was celebrated in real time by former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, who spent the run-up to the Iraq War selling the public on the necessity of the conflict.

 

"I think it is entirely possible that this is going to be a catalyst inside Iran where the people celebrate this killing of Soleimani," Fleischer told Fox in the hours after Soleimani's killing, flanked by Bush administration advisor Karl Rove.

 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/09/has-nothing-been-learned-2003-corporate-media-welcome-back-iraq-war-hawks-make-case

Anonymous ID: edcf4a Jan. 10, 2020, 7:54 p.m. No.7779785   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9829 >>9850 >>9860 >>9935 >>0040 >>0146 >>0153 >>0215

Ukraine Gets Access to Black Boxes From Iran Plane Crash

 

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Jan. 10 that his country’s investigators have been given access to the flight data recorders that were recovered from the wreckage of a Ukrainian plane that went down in Iran, killing all 176 people on board.

 

“Our team has gained access to the ‘black boxes’, we plan to begin reconstruction of the conversations in the near future,” Prystaiko said.

 

Prystaiko’s comments came as allegations grow that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile shot down the plane.

 

Prystaiko said investigators also have been given access to the recordings of air-traffic controllers at the Tehran airport.

 

Although investigators have been to the crash site, he said “there are certain pieces that up until this time have not been found or gathered.”

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraine-gets-access-to-black-boxes-from-iran-plane-crash_3200552.html